YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix

The senior program provides nutritious meals, socialization, and support services to older adults, particularly those at-risk, enabling them to maintain a maximum level of independent living with dignity. The program meets the increasing needs of the growing population of older adults with low-income by offering the following resources. Congregate lunch programs:lunch is served at 4 friendly glendale locations for active older adults. Older adults benefit from nutritious meals, companionship social and educational activities. Home delivered meals:ywca Metropolitan Phoenix is the only meals on wheels program that serves glendale, Arizona. By delivering a nutritious meal, friendly visit, and safety check daily. More than a meal: providing access to additional services: 1. Socialization activities such as educational workshops, self-improvement activities and exercise to keep clients engaged at home/in-person, while staying socially connected; 2. Ywcacts of kindness entails holiday and birthday 'bundles of love', regularly distributed fresh produce and healthy snacks, toiletry kits, household items; 3. Resource hub connector to health and wellness providers, partner referrals, food boxes, home safety modifications and maintenance.

Prosperity program empowers women to take control of their financial independence by offering culturally relevant workshops with practical, hands-on tools. The curriculum includes budgeting, building credit, banking relationships, savings, and other financial tools. The program is taught by staff and volunteer financial professionals. In addition to introductory courses, Ywca also conducts advanced courses on homeownership, insurance, and wage negotiation.

Equity programs:providing learning sessions, events, and workshops to help individuals, groups, and organizations. Ywca provides a safe space to raise awareness and convene conversations on issues of racial justice and gender equality for anyone, no matter where they are in their social justice journey, to learn together. Equity in steam initiative (esi):a grant program administered through a lens of race and gender to support new/continuing projects that inspire underrepresented students to consider steam careers. In addition to the grant funding, each grantee participates in the Ywca equity leadership learning series. This series includes four equity workshops that allows the grantees to explore tangible ways in which they can embed social equity into their steam work. Systems change initiative:ywca is building healthy resilient communities by examining barriers to accessing mental health services and race/gender discrimination against older adults and lgbtq young people ages 18-24.